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1. Right-click the Spot Elevation folder, and select New in the pop-up menu to open the
Label Style Composer, as shown in Figure 1.15.
2. On the Information tab, change the style name to something appropriate. For this exam-
ple, use JW-EG.
Who Built That Style?
It’s a good idea to always put something in the style name to indicate it wasn’t in the box. Putting
your initials or firm name at the beginning of the style is one way to make it easy to differentiate
your styles from the prebuilt ones. Here, JW stands for James Wedding (EG stands for Existing
Ground).
3. Switch to the General tab. Change the layer to C-TOPO-TEXT by clicking the layer cell
and then the More button to the right of that cell.
There are a fair number of options here, so let’s pause the exercise, and look at them further:
Text Style is the default style for text components that are created on the Layout tab. It’s a
good practice to use a zero-height text style with the appropriate font, because you’ll set the
plotted heights in the style anyway.
Layer is the layer on which the components of a label are inserted, not the layer on which the
label itself is inserted. Think of labels as nested blocks. The label (the block) gets inserted on
the layer on the basis of the object layers you saw earlier. The components of the label get
Figure 1.15
The Label Style
Composer
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